PACIFIC - Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise: U.S. Pacific Coast

The goal of this project is to quantify, at the National scale, the relative susceptibility of the Nation's coast to sea-level rise through the use of a coastal vulnerability index (CVI). This initial classification is based upon the variables geomorphology, regional coastal slope, tide range, wave height, relative sea-level rise and shoreline erosion and accretion rates. The combination of these variables and the association of these variables to each other furnish a broad overview of regions where physical changes are likely to occur due to sea-level rise.

本项目旨在以国家尺度为基准，借助海岸脆弱性指数（Coastal Vulnerability Index, CVI），量化该国沿海区域对海平面上升的相对易损性。本次初步分类所依托的变量包括：地貌、区域海岸坡度、潮差、波高、相对海平面上升速率，以及海岸线侵蚀与淤积速率。将上述变量及其相互关联关系进行整合后，可全面概览因海平面上升而大概率发生物理变化的沿海区域分布。